The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-22

words, it is easier for us to get into sin
than to get out of it. Whitefield was
riding on horseback in a lonely way with
some missionary money in a sack fast
ened to the saddle bags. A highwayman
sprang out from the thicket and put his
hand out toward the gold, when White
field turned upon him and said: THAT
belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, touch it
if you dare and the villain fell back
empty handed into the thicket. o, the
power of conscience! If offended, it be-
comes Gods avenging minister. Do not
think that you can hide any great and
protracted sin in your hearts. In an I'M
guarded moment it will slip off of the lip,
or some slight occasion may for a mo-
ment set ajar this door of hell that you
wanted to keep closed. But suppose that
in this life you hide it, and you get along
with that transgression burning in your
heart as ship on fire within for days
may hinder the flame from bursting out
by keeping down the hatchways, yet at
last, in the Judgment, that iniquity will
blaze out before the throne of God and
the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject
the inseparable connection between all
events, however remote. Lord Hastings
was beheaded one year after he had
caused the death of the queens children,
in the very month, the very day, the very
hour and the very moment. There is
wonderful precision in the divine judg-
ments. The universe is only one thought
of God. Those things which seem frag-
mentary and isolated are only different
parts of that one great thought. How far
apart seemed these two events-Joseph
sold to the Arabian merchants and the
rulership of Egypt. Yet you see in what
mysterious way God connected the two
in one plan. So all events are linked to-
gether. You who are aged can look back
and group together thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated. One
undivided chain of events reached from
the Garden of Eden to the cross of Cal
vary, and thus up to heaven. There is
relation between the smallest insect that
huns in the summer air and the arch
angel on his throne. God can trace di-
rect ancestral line from the blue jay that
last spring built its nest III a tree behind
the house to some one of that flock Of
birds which, when Noah hoisted the ark $
window, with a whirl and dash of bright
wings went out to sing over Mount
Ararat. The tulips that bloomed this
summer in the flower bed were nursed
of last winters snowf1akes. The fur
thest star on one side the universe
could not look to the furthest star on
the other side and say: "You are no re-
1ation to me-" for from that bright orb
voice of light would ring across the
heavens responding: ''Yes, yes; we are
sisters" Sir Sidney Smith in prison was
playing lawn tennis in the yard and the
| ball flew over the wall. Another ball
containing letters was thrown back, and
so communication was opened with the
outside world, and Sidney Smith escaped
in time to defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian
| expedition. What small accident con-
nected with what vast result Sir Robert
Peel from a pattern he drew on the
back of pewter dinner plate got
suggestions of that which led to the
important invention by which calico
is printed. Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
| Gods way of turning leaf in the book
of his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle
to our grave there is path all marked
out Each event in our life is connected
with every other event in our life. Our
| loss may be the most direct road to our
gain. Our defeats and victories are twin
brothers. The whole direction of your
life was changed by something which a6
the time seemed to you a tri1e, while
some occurrence which seemed tremen-
dous affected you but little. The Rev.
DIR. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge, n. j.,
Went into his pulpit one Sabbath and by
a strange freak OF memory forgot his
subject and forgot his text, and in great
embarrassment rose before his audience
and announced tbs circumstance and de-
clared himself entirely unable to preach;
then launched forth in a few earnest
words of entreaty and warming which re-
suited in the outbreaking of the mightiest
revival OF religion ever known in that
state, a revival Of religion that resulted in
churches still standing and in the convee-
sion Of a large number of men who
entered the Gospel ministry who have
brought their thousands into the king
dom Of God. Gods plans are nagniR=
cent beyond all comprehension. He
molds us, turns and directs us, and we
know it not. Thousands of years are to
hlm but as the flight of a shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does
not make God tremble, and
the most triumphant achievement does
not lift him into rapture. That one
great thought Of God goes on through the
centuries, and nations rise ana fall, and
eras pass, and the world itself changes,
but God still keeps the undivided mas
terry, linking event to event and century
to century. To God they are all one
event, one history, one plan, one develop
ment, one system. Great and marvel
lous are thy works, Lord God Almighty,
Furthermore, we learn from this story
the propriety of laying up for the future.
During seven years of plenty Joseph pre-
pared for the famine, and when it came
he had a crowded storehouse. The life Of
most men in worldly respect is divided
into years of plenty and famine. It is
seldom that any man passes through life
without at least seven years of plenty.
During these seven prosperous years your
business bears a rich harvest. You
hardly know where all the money comes
from, it comes so fast. Every bargain
You make seems to turn into gold. You
| founded with large dividends. You in
vest more ana ME n;crA capital. You Won
der how men can be content "'.h "' q
small business, gathering in only $100
where you reap your thousands. These
are the seven years of plenty. Now,
Joseph, is the time to prepare for famine,
for to almost every man there do come
seven years of famine. You will be sick
you will be unfortunate: you will be de-
frauded; you will be disappointed; you
will be old, and if you have no storehouse
upon which to fall back you may be
famine struck. We have no admiration
for this denying ones self of all
present comfort and luxury for the
mere pleasure of boarding up, this
grasping for the mere pleasure of seeing
how large pile you can get, this always
being poor and cramped because as soon
as dollar comes ii it is sent out to see
if it can't find another dollar to carry
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